Policing England's riots: 'The scale was vast' – video

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Adrian Roberts, Metropolitan police commander during the London riots in August 2011, tells Paul Lewis they did not have sufficient numbers of police officers on the streets to deal with rioters or resources to respond to rioters' use of social media. He responds to claims that officers were not deployed to the right areas